Archive for March, 2010

How to Make Work Optional

One of the most searched for topics on the Internet is how to make money online. All kinds of people from all walks of life, from all over the world are motivated each day to turn to their keyboard in hopes of finding the answer. In preparing for this series about How to Make Work Optional, I did a totally unscientific survey and a lot of reading research. When asked the question, “Why do you want to make money on-line?” the most frequent responses included…

The truth is, what ever reason people give ( to get ahead on bills, to save for a rainy day, to get rich! ), we are not necessarily looking for a way to just make money on-line. We ARE looking for: Read the rest of this entry

Google Makes a Stand!

Join @VickieRigsby and @jtrigsby for the latest installment of the Life In the Internet podcast.

On this weeks agenda…

The new Samsung R580 at BestBuy… my next laptop!
( You might also want to check out the “>Samsung R530 at Amazon.com, it has a slightly smaller hard drive and a core 2 duo processor… oh, and its $100 cheaper! )

Google has closed applications for its ultra-high speed fiber… now lets see who gets it!

Google also put their foot down with China last week and moved their search engine to Hong Kong… Way to go Google!

Hear Vickie tell us all about how she is in love with Flickr now…

And the question(s) of the week:
1. Where do you get your news about your local community? Newspaper, local tv news, Twitter?
2. Have you ever used your iPhone, netbook, or laptop to crowd source a place to eat when you’re on the road?

Drop your answers to the question(s) of the week in the comments below!

Thanks for keeping up with the Life in the Internet podcast! We REALLY appreciate it!

Till next week..

@VickieRigsby & @jtrigsby

All Thumbs Up… Mostly

@VickieRigsby is back from her trip to Fort Worth and joins @jtrigsby to talk about tech, the Internet and cloud computing on this week’s episode of Life In the Internet. In her travels, we had a chance to use Skype, we get to hear about Vickie’s new Lenovo netbook… and several other topics.

Here are the links we talked about during the show:

@VickieRigsby’s food and cooking blog
http://www.CulinaryClique.com

VickieRigsby’s new Lenovo Netbook
Lenovo S10-2 10.1-Inch Black Netbook All Thumbs Up... Mostly

Augmented Reality Windshield
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=2164

With Skype you can make free calls over the Internet. Skype – the whole world can talk for free  All Thumbs Up... Mostly

Facebook has more hits than Google
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191635/its_official_facebook_rules_the_web.html

Flickr’s iPhone App
http://itunes.apple.com/app/flickr/id328407587?mt=8